I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but the Heine update supposedly comes with a second dungeon (not the underwater one) called
the Ant Dungeon. To get to it, you just wander INTO one of those swirling sand traps in the northern part of the desert. This should take you
into the Ant Dungeon. This dungeon is primarily filled with giant ants and giant soldier ants, with the prize of the very powerful Ant Queen
at the bottom of the dungeon (we're not sure how big it is yet). The only way out is by (a) teleport home or (b) death, as the sand trap
is a one way entrance. Perhaps one of our readers who is in the test server can try this out and maybe send us some screenshots of the Ant
Queen in action.

Here's the promised screenshot of what a Korean siege looks like:This siege involved about 400-500 people. Can you find Waldo in this picture? ^^

Also a little bonus for mages - here are three tamed (!) elders! Those things
are hard to tame because of their unnaturally high magic resistance!

Some Korean made it to level 53. This STR knight (which it appears most Korean knights
are) has 666HP (with orc ammy) and 56MP. No special bonus for level 53, but he did comment that he took +1 STR
at level 50 and since level 50 is now much faster.

Thanks to Neo for pointing out that Staff of Force has a +3 hit bonus. For some reason
all the hit bonuses (which are present when you ID something) are left out of the US official guide.

On the note of hit bonuses, here's the answer to one of the many questions I sent to
support@ncinteractive.com which should put hit bonuses into perspective: "The exact workings of the hit bonus are not given to us. I
believe that +5 hit bonus will help you hit the same as someone using a +0 hit
bonus weapon that is 5 levels higher than you. This is just a guess, but should
give you an idea about how the bonus works."

Also to clear up some information on the iron set: we're now pretty sure of the following things:
(1) iron gloves can only be worn by knights, (2) iron boots can be worn by everyone, (3) iron items
can be safely zelled to +4 like all normal armor.
Anyhow, there's a bunch of stuff to translate tonight, so I'll be back on with an update later. The
Korean Heine siege occurred, and we'll put a screenshot up or something. It occurs to me that its
not clear how crowded the Korean servers are to everyone and it would be nice to show you guys
what we found. (soon the US servers should be the same way)

Thanks to Stub for pointing out that there is a studded leather set we totally neglected. It's
now listed in our Armor Sets page. It's a really good intermediate point for
newbies (before bone set). Is there also a leather set? I guess I can make one and find out unless
someone knows for sure.

Thanks to hendu for letting us know that on the US Test Server, iron gloves are Knight
only. I still hope that when Heine comes, iron gloves will be available to all, but it's not looking
good. T.T We amended our comments on the Armor Sets page to include this
information.

We had made some mistakes in the ER gain for princes and elves on the Class
Selection page of the Getting Started guide. Elves gain 1 ER every 6
levels and Princes/Princesses gain 1 ER every 8 levels. Thanks to Taran for that catch.

NCSoft - Korea is donating 1% of its monthly fees for 2 months to a Korean charity.
They are estimating that to be about $76,000. That's very nice of them. Hopefully NCSoft - USA
will be as successful. (Let me do the math for you NCSoft - Korea makes $3.8 mil, pre-tax,
in user subscriptions per month)

We're going to start reporting on US news, because they are the servers we actually
care about and we're tired of translating everything. So here goes nothing. We present
our new Siege News section, where we try to report on sieges and
interview the pledge that wins. Our first story is about KPBP sieging Giran and taking it from
Bluepower. We're looking for reporters to join our site. Email us if you are interested.

Bad news for elves: According to linstage.com, elven wafer and the NPC that makes them, were removed from the live servers. No reasons are given. This does not necessarily mean the same fate will become of US elven wafers, but it's not really a good sign.

On the Korean test server, someone killed a doppleganger and got a blessed "samurai long sword". No info on the stats, but in the linstage.com screenshot, it was +6. This is the image on the right.

Some minor news care of game.korea.com: CON mages are all the rage in Korea now -- the price of haste and erupt has dropped, but summon has gone up to about 1.8M -- the race for sieging Heine is building up. I assume they'll post some crazy video when that happens, hopefully someone will be able to grab that. ^^ (You might have already noticed, sieges are much much bigger deals to Koreans than to us. More than 10 *full* pledges form alliances and seige together and are *very* organized and planned out. So 70% of the news we find is about siege this and siege that, the when and where. This is as opposed
to our servers where a siege is driven by random high level knights with prince/princess of pledges that you've heard of once or twice for about 2 months when they are a monopoly after which they fade away. No one asks
"Who has Giran?" because *everyone* knows.)

We also read an interview on game.korea.com with some high level player (they could morph to demon) who was telling the reporter that he his lvl 43 dobs could 1:1 an ogre, a muryan (they both die at the same time), but not a basilisk. wow!

In the class selection part of the Getting Started guide, I mistakenly posted that elves can have max STR of 20, and max CHA of 18. This is false. Elves can only have a max STR of 18 and a max CHA 16. Sorry elves! :(

Added a Magic Guide section. Please check and see if you can contribute to the
list of which mops drop which spellbook. Thank you so much to Jina, DarkLights, KxKx, Ghast, BrownShadow and the many other people involved in the global mass collaboration on Ken server that helped make this list.

Added a Giran Map I made back when Giran first came out. It's big (914k), so prepare to scroll alot.

I added an HP/MP level up calculator. It estimates your HP/MP given your level, class, CON and WIS. Also, it tells you what the averages are for everyone who has given me information. Please help make this a great tool by emailing me your class, lvl, WIS, CON, HP and MP.

Lake Louis & Losus IslandThis huge lake at Heine is by far the largest lake in Aden. Since there is so much fog around the lake all the time, the lake is also called "Lake of Fog". Also, because of so much reef around the area, it's been difficult to use boats around here. Because of such terrible condition and absence of human presense, all kinds of wild life and monsters live in Losus Island which is located in the center of the lake. Criminals often flee to this island.

IMPORTANT NPCS

Buakheu - this toad man sells potions to ppl in the underwater town

Eveurol - Eva's temple's priest who gives "bless of eva"

Temple Knights - priest/knight who protects the Eva's temple. Skilled with both water magic and swordship.

Fisher - grand chamberlain of the heine castle. he's in mid 50s, his posture is very straight, white hair...

Dewell - this fat guy was the original lord of the castle. although he's fat and not so good rooking, he seems friendly.

NEW MONSTERS

All the monsters are on the monsters page with stats (thanks to NCSoft - Korea)

NEW ITEMS

bless of eva - pot. for 3 min you won't lose hp under water. without the pot, you will lose 5 hp every 5 seconds under water